Singing Games - Clapping Games, Counting-Out Rhymes, Finger Plays, Skipping Rhymes, Counting-Out Game, Oranges and Lemons, Stella Ella Ola, Eeny (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Clapping games, Counting-out rhymes, Finger plays, Skipping rhymes, Counting-out game, Oranges and Lemons, Stella Ella Ola, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Ring a Ring o' Roses, London Bridge Is Falling Down, Singing game, Skipping-rope rhyme, A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Pop Goes the Weasel, This Little Piggy, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, The Muffin Man, Skip to My Lou, The Grand Old Duke of York, Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, Pease Porridge Hot, How Many Miles to Babylon?, Pretty Little Dutch Girl, The Farmer in the Dell, Did You Ever See a Lassie?, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, See Saw Margery Daw, Two Little Dickie Birds, Mary Mack, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Nuts in May, Down Down Baby, Oats Peas Beans and Barley Grow, Eeper Weeper, Round and round the garden, Poor Mary, Wind The Bobbin Up, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball?, Fingerplays, Michael Michael Motorcycle, Roller coaster. Excerpt: "Oranges and Lemons" is an English nursery rhyme and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches, all within or close to the City of London. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as #3190. Common modern versions include: Here is a longer version: The song is used in a children's singing game with the same name, in which the players file, in pairs, through an arch made by two of the players (made by having the players face each other, raise their arms over their head, and clasp their partners' hands). The challenge comes during the final lines: Here comes a candle to light you to bed.Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.(Chip chop, chip chop, the last man's dead.)On the last word, the children forming the arch drop their arms to catch the pair of children currently passing through, who are then "out" and must form another arch next to the existing one. In this way, the series of arches...